With over 1.3 billion people, China has the world’s largest population and according to a Forbes report, China surpasses US in internet use. Reaching over 162 million internet users as of June 2007, China has the world’s second largest internet population. A statistics that can’t be ignored by online entrepreneurs. Given the enormous number of internet users, it is therefore not surprising to find out that Baidu.com, China’s most popular search engine, is ranked as the 5th most popular website in the world. The fact is, there are more people who are using Baidu, than Yahoo, MSN Live and Ask to search the internet. Hence, appearing from Baidu’s search result is a great potential source of traffic to your blog. Today’s post answers why and how you should submit your blog at Baidu.com.
Why Should You Submit Your Blog To Baidu.com?
Probably, you don’t care submiting to Baidu for several reasons. Firstly, Baidu.com is a Chinese search engine and most Chinese don’t understand English. Since your blog is written in English, it will be of no use to them. Secondly, your target readers are from a certain geographic location (e.g. United States of America, United Kingdom). And lastly, you don’t understand Chinese so probably you won’t understand the submission procedures of Baidu.
Since China has embraced globalization, it has welcomed foreign languages especially English. As China prepares to host the 2008 Beijing Olympics, the Chinese government launched a massive campaign to teach English to its citizens. Assuming that the trend of studying English continues in China, China will soon be the largest English speaking country in the world.
Regarding targeting specific geographic location, I don’t see any reason why you should deprive your blog of traffic from other countries especially from regions where the Alexa toolbar is widely used. Submitting your blog to Baidu.com will take you less than 1 minute. Simply enter your blog’s URL and a enter the verification code and you’re done. That’s how easy it is.
Simple Steps In Submitting Your Blog To Baidu.com
- CLICK HERE to submit your blog/website.
- Enter your blog’s URL just like it’s shown in the picture. Enter the verfication code and hit the gray button.
- You should see this message confirming that you’ve submitted your blog’s URL successfully.
Now that you’re done, you will have to wait for Baidu’s crawler to visit and index your blog or you can submit your blog to other search engines.
UPDATE JAN. 16, 2008: I just want to let everyone know that the link to Baidu is up and working. Submit your blog now! Happy blogging. 
Update Jan. 10, 2008: The link to Baidu’s submission page has been transferred. Sorry for the inconvenience. I’ll find out the new submission link and have the link updated soon.
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Mark Stoneman responded on 12 Dec 2007 at 12:54 pm #
“China will soon be the largest English speaking country in the world.” — Surely you mean “the country with the largest number of people who can speak English.” There’s a difference.
Thanks for the screen shots.
Have you considered opening your blog’s comments to bloggers with other logins? That would be helpful now that the URL field is gone. You can open things up by using the dashboard on Blogger in Draft.
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Anonymous responded on 12 Dec 2007 at 1:05 pm #
Great post! I have good friends in China, thanks for opening my eyes. Looking forward to see you visiting my blog at http://www.searchforblogging.com
I submitted my blog to Baidu.com
Cheers,
Mert Erkal
Clement Nthambazale Nyirenda. responded on 12 Dec 2007 at 2:33 pm #
Thanks for the information.I have since submitted my blog to baidu.
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GO! Smell the flowers responded on 12 Dec 2007 at 4:51 pm #
Thanks for sharing this!
Our writer in China insisted we did this way back and looks like he was right!
Time we got flowers on the China map - we deliver flowers there so why not!
Glenn Abel responded on 13 Dec 2007 at 5:21 am #
Great idea, I submitted all of my network’s blogs.
On my DVD video site, I get traffic from SERPs in every kind of language. The users are searching in English but the SE is, say, in Arabic.
Keep up the good work …
Nesher responded on 16 Dec 2007 at 1:24 am #
Thank you for tip. I am not sure, how much traffic I can get from China on my English and Russian blogs, but submission was fast and easy. We visited China this year, and English speaking people were extremely rare out of the beaten track.
rosie responded on 16 Dec 2007 at 5:08 am #
Super thanks, I submitted my blogs. One question, how do I handle comments that might be made in Chinese? Should I write you for advice?
(Smile)
This was very exciting.
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Kevin responded on 16 Dec 2007 at 5:18 am #
Thank you for the helpful tip. I submitted my blog and my website containing my winning humorous speech contest entries from the Toastmasters District 46 Fall conference. You can see both of my winning speechs from last year and this year by following this link:
http://www.kevinthompsononline.com/Kevin_Thompson_Online_-_Con.html
I hope that you enjoy the videos.
Lalit Navani responded on 17 Dec 2007 at 4:36 pm #
Thanks for the guidelines.
Yes I will definitely submit my site to baidu.
http://www.gateway2internet.com/blog
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Michael responded on 27 Dec 2007 at 11:10 pm #
Great to get useful information from a informative blog such as yours, particularly the social and chinese submission sites…
kaash responded on 29 Dec 2007 at 8:42 pm #
i knew that baidu.com is china’s largest search engine but didn’t have any idea how to submit my blog in it.
Now i know this because of this post.
Thanks a lot.
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AnimalsNeedHelp.com responded on 30 Dec 2007 at 6:05 pm #
That is a good idea about submitting sites to all countries. I was wondering do they eat dogs in China?
TurkishExPortal responded on 31 Dec 2007 at 8:14 am #
Thanks for sharing. We submitted our web site http://www.TurkishExPortal.com to Baidu as well.
Regards,
TurkishExPortal Team
Saif270 responded on 31 Dec 2007 at 2:31 pm #
Thanks have submitted my site
http://hdtvreviews.org.uk/
Has anyone seen any increased traffic because of this?
berryblitz responded on 01 Jan 2008 at 4:13 am #
I’ve just submitted my blog to Baidu. Thanks for this tip
Blogging Mix responded on 03 Jan 2008 at 5:47 am #
Hi everyone,
Have you checked whether you’ve been indexed at Baidu.com cause Blogging Mix has already been indexed. I’ve also started to receive traffic from Baidu.
EzRich responded on 03 Jan 2008 at 6:18 am #
I have submitted http://ezrichproject.blogspot.com to Baidu.com
Thanks for the tips.
Reader responded on 03 Jan 2008 at 9:22 pm #
This is interesting considering the potential of China. What do you say about the following site which I had seen?
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Ted responded on 07 Jan 2008 at 7:22 am #
Yes, useful information, I really admire Chine and I hope I get lots of readers from there he he.
bloggingmix responded on 07 Jan 2008 at 8:54 am #
@ Ted,
I’ve registered Blogging Mix 3 weeks ago and I’ve already started receiving traffic from Baidu.
Good luck and happy blogging!
Pete White responded on 08 Jan 2008 at 4:49 pm #
Great tip, thanks. Will be interesting to see how much traffic I get in the coming weeks.
ThePsychoExWife.Com responded on 09 Jan 2008 at 4:38 am #
My company has three plants in China and I can attest to the efforts to teach English over there. While I’m not sure I would share my site with my co-workers overseas directly, I did take the time to submit http://www.thepsychoexwife.com with your assistance. Much Appreciated.
LM
horror movies guy responded on 09 Jan 2008 at 5:19 am #
I’ve never heard of this site. I’ll have to check it out and submit my URL. Thanks for the recommendation! Keep up the good work.
dpaka responded on 09 Jan 2008 at 5:58 pm #
I’ve just submitted my blog http://healthforlifestyle.blogspot.com/ to Baidu. Thanks for this tipS.
Rob Cubbon - graphic designer London responded on 10 Jan 2008 at 7:21 pm #
Great tip! I’m sure there’s a market there despite the language barrier. I submitted all my sites. Thank you.
lankapo responded on 13 Jan 2008 at 3:10 am #
MISSING LINK.I clicks to your link to submit my link but baidu cannot find it.I translate it using Google
I am sorry that your visit to the page does not exist.
1. Check the web site you entered is correct.
2 If you can be sure you entered the Web site, please visit Baidu more pages to view your visit to the web site.
3. Direct input to visit the contents of a search:
If still in doubt please visit Baidu Help access solutions, it can also Baidu to leave your comments or suggestions.
bloggingmix responded on 13 Jan 2008 at 6:38 am #
@ Lankapo,
Yes, I checked the link today and it is directing to the wrong page. Thanks for the heads up. I’ll find the new link soon and have it posted here.
bloggingmix responded on 13 Jan 2008 at 6:45 am #
@ Rosie,
Don’t worry, I’m sure you’ll get comments in English.;)
satyendra gupta responded on 15 Jan 2008 at 9:08 pm #
I have submitted my blog http://ceospeaks.mrkconsultancy.com to baidu.com thanks for the link.
Guardian Angel responded on 19 Jan 2008 at 1:15 am #
Guess what? I felt sorry when I first read this post coz it said that baidu is temporary not available, but still I bookmarked this page hoping for an update. I was just so lucky to view it again today. Thanks for being sincere and keeping your promise to your readers. I will submit my URL to baidu and add your site to my favorites from now on and of course constantly visiting you.
However, just 2 questions, how can I see my traffic from baidu? Will it be chinese version? I think this is an odd question though…thanks again!
Glowicki ProBLogger responded on 20 Jan 2008 at 4:13 pm #
Since Your link doesnt work anymore here is my way of signing to baidum.com + some other rare countries engines:
glowicki.pl/01/15/add-url-submit-site-to-search-engines-free/
bloggingmix responded on 21 Jan 2008 at 5:46 am #
@ Glowicki,
I guess you missed the part where I said the Link is up and running again. Go check for yourself.
Ravi responded on 21 Jan 2008 at 5:55 pm #
Thanks - will submit by blog today (http://www.desicrazy.com)
Danish responded on 21 Jan 2008 at 10:09 pm #
I have been visiting china last year, most of them seems don’t want to use english at all compare to my country, hope that china will sosialize english better in the future.
Laice responded on 28 Jan 2008 at 3:33 pm #
Thank you for a great post and I have favored your blog on entrecard as well. Have submitted all my sites, as I have widgets that convert english into another language.
Jim responded on 29 Jan 2008 at 2:45 am #
Sounds good.
Didn’t think about Baudi, but I will definitely have a look here.
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PChere responded on 04 Feb 2008 at 4:20 pm #
Thanks for this nice tip. Lets hope chinese guys can translate our english content.
BobbyT responded on 11 Feb 2008 at 12:49 am #
Thanks for this great tips. I gave my second thumbs up in Stumble for pages of this site, on the first visit! Many more articles to go through. Thanks again and godspeed!
Indian Curry Recipes responded on 13 Feb 2008 at 10:48 pm #
Thanks for the great tip.
ITIS responded on 15 Feb 2008 at 5:58 am #
I hope I am doing this right to submit a comment for blog. Anyway… “Happy Chinese New Year” from llchuk
samoondra responded on 18 Feb 2008 at 2:22 am #
i was interested in submitting my page in the above mentioned place but the language caused all the problems. Had it been in english, i would have surely added my pages.
Hexacool responded on 26 Feb 2008 at 12:08 pm #
I’ve just submitted my blog http://hexacool.blogspot.com to Baidu! Thanks for the tips!
Rmagin responded on 26 Feb 2008 at 7:21 pm #
Thanks! Great! I’m very grateful to the word “SHARING”. Through this word you have spread the good news to bloggers. I’ve submitted mine too. This is my site Pinoy Barking Hall
Puneet responded on 07 Mar 2008 at 3:48 pm #
Very much useful and helpful for my sites … Thanx a lot frd…
and the link provided by “Glowicki ProBLogger ” is also good one to submit our sites into diff search engines …
Link Building Bible responded on 17 Mar 2008 at 3:15 am #
Thanks for this resource. While it may not pay off in the short term, it is definitely a great idea for possible long term benefits.
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Blogging Mix responded on 17 Mar 2008 at 1:25 pm #
@ Link Building Bible,
I see traffic from Baidu about two weeks after I submitted my blog. You should get some hits from Baidu after you submit your blog and it gets indexed.
Cashflow420 responded on 05 Apr 2008 at 6:12 am #
Very good article! Thanks for sharing… I submitted my url Cashflow420.com
istanbul responded on 05 Apr 2008 at 5:09 pm #
thanks
Wenbin responded on 11 Apr 2008 at 1:02 am #
Thanks for your tip. I’m from Singapore and Baidu is extremely popular with the Chinese that came from China to study here.
Just submitted my blog
http://www.communicatebetter.blogspot.com/
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Felex Tan responded on 11 Apr 2008 at 5:05 pm #
I should submit early.Late submission
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technology hacker responded on 15 Apr 2008 at 7:12 pm #
Thanks for the tip. I will submit my blog in this.
Puneet responded on 22 Apr 2008 at 7:41 pm #
Hey frds my site and blog is well crawled by Baidu … but with less traffic …
any comments on getting good traffic from this high populated se ?
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TOBY responded on 25 Apr 2008 at 10:23 am #
Thanks for the tips
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Yan responded on 29 Apr 2008 at 4:32 pm #
How could I never thought of that before?
China is indeed a big market and getting the traffic from one of the biggest search engine in China is definitely beneficial in the long run.
Priyabrata Nanda responded on 01 May 2008 at 10:17 pm #
The prospect of connecting to about 162 million internet users through baidu.com is really tempting and I am sure that my blog would reach to the people of a beautiful world that I missed earlier.Thanx.
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vietkicks responded on 09 May 2008 at 9:27 am #
thanks for your help
Germz responded on 24 May 2008 at 6:18 pm #
Hmm I didn’t think of it this way.. I mean it’s a chinese search engine but I’ll definitely try with my blog,
http://www.thegermz.com
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FERRY responded on 17 Aug 2008 at 3:33 am #
Hey I submitted my Blog as well..
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ganesh responded on 15 Sep 2008 at 9:32 am #
i was getting big problem to submit my web site on baidu but today i read this blog and i add my web site on baidu so thanks teaching to submit on baidu
regard
http://www.nepalpackagetour.com
aerosup responded on 16 Oct 2008 at 10:45 am #
here’s the link to baidu submission..
http://www.baidu.com/search/url_submit.html
hope it helps..
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